IT Pros Blast Google Over Android's Refusal To Play Nice With IPv6

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @09:20AM from the do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do dept.

alphadogg writes: The widespread popularity of Android devices and the general move to IPv6 has put some businesses in a tough position, thanks to Android's lack of support for a central component in the newer standard. DHCPv6 is an outgrowth of the DHCP protocol used in the older IPv4 standard – it's an acronym for 'dynamic host configuration protocol,' and is a key building block of network management. Nevertheless, Google's wildly popular Android devices – which accounted for 78% of all smartphones shipped worldwide in the first quarter of this year – don't support DHCPv6 for address assignment.

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Google's IPv6 SMTP servers by Anonymous Coward · 2015-06-23 09:29 · Score: 5, Interesting

Google's IPv6 support for mail is what annoys me. I have a static non-tunneled IPv6 address for my server, have reverse DNS set up for it that resolves properly, have SPF and DKIM records set up properly, and they still refuse to accept mail from the server, even though they accept my IPv4 mail just fine. Lots of other folks have been having the same problem, and it really makes me wonder why Google's even bothering with IPv6 SMTP when they're refusing mail from so many legitimate (i.e. non-spam) hosts.